Sophie has 3/4 quart of lemonade. if she divides the lemonade into glasses that hold 1/16 quart, how many glasses can Sophie fill? Show your work.

Mathematics · Middle School · Thu Feb 04 2021

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Given the statement:

Sophie has 3/4 quart of lemonade. 

Determine how many glasses can Sophie fill if she divides the lemonade into glasses that hold 1/16 quart.

Solution:

In order to determine the answer, we simply needed to divide ¾ by 1/16. Before dividing, we must also take note that when dividing with a fraction, we instead take its reciprocal then multiply the to the denominator. In our case we will have 16 as the reciprocal of 1/16 to be multiplied to ¾.

= ¾ / 1/16

= (¾)(16/1)

= 12

Final answer:

= 12 glasses